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The Creaking Pagoda (Скрипучая беседка), also known as the Chinese Summer House (Китайская беседка), is a small
File:Sankt-Peterburg_oldfoto_13715.jpg, alt=слева, In 1912
File:Magic Sankt Petersburg - Puschkin - Katharina's Palace Garden 2.jpg, In 2004, before the most recent restoration was completed
File:Chinese Summer House, interior 04.JPG, One of the doors, from the inside, in 2011
File:Пушкин, Екатерининский парк, Китайская беседка.jpg, In 2014
File:Скрипучая беседка. 7.JPG, Dragons at the corners of the roof
The Creaking Pagoda (Скрипучая беседка), also known as the Chinese Summer House (Китайская беседка), is a small summer house
A summer house or summerhouse has traditionally referred to a building or shelter used for relaxation in warm weather. This would often take the form of a small, roofed building on the grounds of a larger one, but could also be built in a garden ...
located between two ponds in Tsarskoe Selo
Tsarskoye Selo ( rus, Ца́рское Село́, p=ˈtsarskəɪ sʲɪˈlo, a=Ru_Tsarskoye_Selo.ogg, "Tsar's Village") was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the c ...
, Russia
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. It stands in on the boundary separating the Catherine Park
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of the baroque Catherine Palace
The Catherine Palace (russian: Екатерининский дворец, ) is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 30 km south of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars. The Palace is part of the ...
and the New Garden of the Alexander Park of the neoclassical Alexander Palace
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.
The pagoda
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is a long but narrow folly
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Eighteenth-cent ...
that resulted from the 18th-century taste for Chinoiserie
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, reflected in other buildings constructed for Catherine the Great. It was constructed near the Chinese Village in 1778 to 1786, designed by Georg von Veldten
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, also known as Yury Velten, possibly with input from Antonio Rinaldi. Construction lasted from 1778 to 1786. The walls are decorated with figures of dragons and other stylized Chinese motifs. are gilded wooden sculptures of dragons at the corners of the roof, carrying bells in their mouths, and steps from the main entrance lead down to the water. The structure fell into disrepair in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was damaged in the Second World War, but it was restored from 1954 to 1956. Further restoration work in the 1990s, including a new roof, before the 200th anniversary of Tsarskoe Selo. Chinese characters for "Welcome" were added on the main door.
The name of the structure refers to a characteristic sound produced by a metal weathervane, shaped like a banner, on the top of the structure which creaks when it is turned by the wind.
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Buildings and structures completed in 1786 Buildings and structures in Pushkin Folly buildings in Russia Chinoiserie Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg {{Russia-struct-stub